Pholo Maenetje:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6063-4353
Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Christina Lindan: Role: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Heeran Makkan:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4737-7804
Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Candice M. Chetty-Makkan: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Mary H. Latka: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Salome Charalambous: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Mandla Mlotshwa: Role: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Matshidiso Malefo: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
William Brumskine: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Nancy K. Hills: Role: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Matthew A. Price: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Vinodh Edward:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3952-4760
Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – review & editing
Hajo Zeeb: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
3
April
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e0214786
Affiliations
[1
]
The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa
[2
]
Advancing Care and Treatment for TB/HIV, A Collaborating Centre of the South African
Medical Research Council, Johannesburg, South Africa
[3
]
School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa
[4
]
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco,
San Francisco, United States of America
[5
]
School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa
[6
]
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, United States of America
Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology BIPS, GERMANY
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-09473
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214786
PMC ID: 6447216
PubMed ID: 30943254
SO-VID: ab96415c-1f5f-4018-a9d7-15c132f539a6
Copyright © © 2019 Maenetje et al
License:
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000200, United States Agency for International Development;
Award ID: GPO-A-00-05-00022-00
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3952-4760
Vinodh Edward
This work was funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) under
Cooperative Agreement No. GPO-A-00-05-00022-00 and the Contraceptive and Reproductive
Health Technologies Research and Utilisation (CRTU) Program. The funders were involved
in the study design of the protocols that were implemented at the site. The Aurum
Institute conceptualized the idea for the manuscript and the funders provided technical
guidance. We wish to acknowledge the support from the University of California, San
Francisco’s International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies (ITAPS), U.S. NIMH,
R25MH064712 and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
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Medical Microbiology
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Microbial Pathogens
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Viral Pathogens
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Immunodeficiency Viruses
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HIV
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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Pathogens
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Microbial Pathogens
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Viral Pathogens
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Immunodeficiency Viruses
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HIV
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Organisms
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Viruses
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Viral Pathogens
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Immunodeficiency Viruses
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HIV
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Organisms
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Viruses
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Immunodeficiency Viruses
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HIV
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Biology and life sciences
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Organisms
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Viruses
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RNA viruses
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Retroviruses
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Lentivirus
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HIV
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Microbiology
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Medical Microbiology
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Microbial Pathogens
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Viral Pathogens
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Retroviruses
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Lentivirus
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HIV
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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Pathogens
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Microbial Pathogens
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Viral Pathogens
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Retroviruses
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Lentivirus
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HIV
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Organisms
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Viruses
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Viral Pathogens
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Retroviruses
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Lentivirus
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HIV
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Medicine and health sciences
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Infectious diseases
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Viral diseases
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HIV infections
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Medicine and health sciences
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Epidemiology
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HIV epidemiology
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People and Places
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Population Groupings
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Sexuality Groupings
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Heterosexuals
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Psychology
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Behavior
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Psychology
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Behavior
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People and Places
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Population Groupings
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Sexuality Groupings
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Men WHO Have Sex with Men
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Surgical and Invasive Medical Procedures
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Reproductive System Procedures
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Circumcision
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People and places
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South Africa